Sensor selection for P300 speller brain computer interface

Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) are communication system that use brain activities to control a device. The BCI studied is based on the P300 speller [1]. A new algorithm to select relevant sensors is proposed: it is based on a previous proposed algorithm [2] used to enhance P300 potentials by spatial filters. Data recorded on three subjects were used to evaluate the proposed selection method: it is shown to be efficient and to compare favourably with a reference method [3].

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